The first half of 2025 brought a small but potentially significant tipping point in the global energy system, according to the independent clean energy research group Ember.

"Clean sources grew more than demand and therefore they displaced some fossil fuels," Ember's Senior Electricity Analyst Małgorzata Wiatros-Motyka told Newsweek.

The remarkable growth in clean energy has, until now, been more about energy addition than energy transition, as the global growth in demand used up both the power from fossil fuels and new renewable sources.

In the first six months of this year, however, that appears to have shifted in what Wiatros-Motyka called "the first signs of a crucial turning point" where clean power is keeping pace with demand growth and beginning to muscle out fossil fuels.

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